Greater Wellington Regional Council / August 2019
Greater Wellington promotes Quality for Life by ensuring our environment is protected while meeting the economic, cultural and social needs of the community. Our specific responsibilities include environment management, flood protection and land management, provision of regional parks, public transport planning and funding, and metropolitan water supply.
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Harbour sediment rates too high for healthy habitats
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A recent survey of Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour shows sedimentation rates have more than doubled in the last five years, undermining animal and plant habitats and the healthy functioning of this estuary.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Greater Wellington carbon neutrality underway with new native forest planting system
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A new native forest planting system is helping Greater Wellington Regional Council achieve its biodiversity and climate change goals.
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Environment fund helps support community groups
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Applications for Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Community Environment Fund are open with the aim of supporting community groups to restore, maintain and protect our native ecosystems.
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Women empowered with cycle workshops
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Cycling workshops for migrant, former refugee and low income women are coming to local communities with an aim to empower people with a safe, low cost form of transport.
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Greater Wellington announces package to tackle climate change
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council agreed unanimously on an ambitious package to tackle climate change, combatting the impacts already being felt across the region, at its Council meeting on August 21.
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Metlink welcomes purchase of Mana Coach Services
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Metlink welcomes news today that Transdev Australasia have agreed terms to acquire Mana Coach Services.
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5000 new trees thanks to Spade Aid
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Hundreds of planters of all ages flooded into Queen Elizabeth Park on Sunday, putting 5000 trees in the ground for this year’s Spade Aid event.
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Children learn to ‘cross with care’ during Rail Safety Week
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- 13-year-old Nichola from Avalon Intermediate pulls a train into Wellington Station on Metlink’s train simulator.
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Kaiwharawhara proposed as preferred site for multi-user terminal for Cook Strait Ferries
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A plan for a more resilient Cook Strait ferry network has taken a step forward with the announcement that Kaiwharawhara is being considered as the preferred site for a potential new multi-user ferry terminal, pending further detailed investigation into its resilience.
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Temporary peak bus changes to provide customer certainty during Tranzurban driver shortage
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Metlink has released details on a range of temporary peak bus changes as part of measures to provide customers with certainty over the next six months, while Tranzurban addresses its driver shortage.
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Planting empowers potential for Porirua waterway
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Students from Natone, Porirua and Windley schools got digging this week, planting over 600 trees at Bothamley Park thanks to a collaboration between Greater Wellington Regional Council, Sustainable Coastlines and Porirua City Council.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Greater Wellington seeks funding for new trains
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council plans to improve the region’s rail network with new longer distance rolling stock upgrading the Wairarapa and Capital Connection fleets are underway.
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RiverLink shifts up a gear
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- After several years of planning and preliminary design, work on Lower Hutt’s most ambitious transformation project is starting to ramp-up.
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Cyclists and bus drivers switch places
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Travel Choice team recently joined NZBus to run a Wellington workshop where cyclists and bus drivers switched seats to feel what it is like to ride in each other’s shoes.
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Report advances knowledge on impact of climate change on coastal communities
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A report analysing the vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change has been released by Greater Wellington Regional Council and the region’s councils.
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